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Guide overview

What Is the Agile Manifesto?

Introduction to the Agile Manifesto

What is the Agile Manifesto?

Who created the Agile Manifesto?

The four Agile Manifesto values

1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

2. Working software over comprehensive documentation

3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

4. Responding to change over following a plan

The 12 Agile Manifesto principles

Why is the Agile Manifesto important?

How to use the Agile Manifesto

Embrace the Agile Manifesto with Wrike

Agile vs. Waterfall

Agile vs. Waterfall: An overview

Agile vs. Waterfall: Key differences

Differences between Agile and Waterfall in real projects

Agile vs. Waterfall pros and cons

Can Agile and Waterfall be used together?

How to choose between Agile and Waterfall

Decide with Wrike

The Benefits and Advantages of Agile

Why is Agile so popular?

The benefits of Agile

The advantages of Agile

Streamline Agile workflows with Wrike

What Is Agile Operations?

The history of Agile in IT operations

Benefits of Agile IT operations

How to implement Agile IT operations

How Wrike can help with Agile IT operations

What is Agile Product Management?

Why product management needs agility today

Agile product management approach

Key principles of Agile product management

The role of the Agile product manager

Strategic responsibilities

Tactical responsibilities

Day-to-day collaboration

Product manager vs. product owner

The Agile product management lifecycle

Product discovery in an Agile context

Working with Agile delivery frameworks

Scrum

Kanban

What matters more than the framework

Common pitfalls and how to avoid them

Tools and practices that support Agile product management

Getting started with Agile

The Agile Software Development Life Cycle

What is a life cycle in Agile?

The six phases of the Agile life cycle

The Agile iteration workflow

Manage your Agile life cycle with Wrike

Building an Agile Team Structure

Characteristics of an Agile team structure

Team structure: Traditional vs. Agile

Types of Agile team structure

Agile team: Key roles and responsibilities

How to build an Agile team structure

A Guide to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Key takeaways

What is the Scaled Agile Framework?

What is the foundation of SAFe?

What are the principles of SAFe?

Milestones based on evaluating working systems

Work in progress (WIP) limits

Synchronized cadence

Intrinsic motivation

Decentralized decision-making

Value-based organization

Flow

Team and technical agility

Built-in quality

Program Increment (PI) planning

What are the four levels of SAFe?

1. Essential SAFe

2. Large Solution SAFe

3. Portfolio SAFe

4. Full SAFe

What Are the Benefits of SAFe?

Enhanced collaboration and teamwork

Improved efficiency and productivity

Faster time to market

Increased innovation and competitiveness

Better alignment with business goals and objectives

Portfolio visibility and funding alignment

Governance without losing agility

Cross-team dependency management

Predictable delivery at scale

Is SAFe right for your company?

When should you use SAFe?

How SAFe Supports Agile at Scale

How teams operationalize SAFe with Wrike

Planning increments with shared timelines

Tracking dependencies across teams

Coordinating cross-team work in one system

Maintaining visibility across portfolios

Implement SAFe in your organization with Wrike

Agile and Lean Portfolio Management

What is Agile portfolio management?

What is Lean portfolio management?

Why choose a Lean-Agile approach to portfolio management?

Manage your portfolio with Wrike

Understanding Squads, Tribes, and Guilds

The Spotify model

Should you create squad teams?

Build your own model

What Is Agile Transformation?

Agile transformation vs. Agile adoption

Agile transformation vs. digital transformation

Benefits of Agile transformation

Better team collaboration

Accelerated delivery

Increased ROI

Challenges of Agile transformation

Strain on resources

Unwillingness to change

Lack of clarity

Steps to Agile transformation

5. Communicate regularly

Agile KPIs

Key takeaways

What are Agile KPI metrics?

Agile KPIs vs. Agile metrics: How to choose what to track

Scrum KPIs and charts

Kanban KPIs and charts

Quality KPIs (build quality into the system)

Team health KPIs (because unsustainable pace becomes delivery risk)

Flow and delivery KPIs (useful in Scrum and Kanban)

How to interpret flow KPIs effectively

Tracking and visualizing Agile KPIs in Wrike

Use boards to model Scrum and Kanban workflows

Use dashboards to monitor Agile KPIs in real time

Use reports for cross-team visibility

Use custom fields to standardize Agile data

Use automations to reinforce Agile processes

Use integrations to consolidate work and reporting

Turning Agile KPIs into better delivery outcomes with Wrike

What is Agile Marketing

Agile marketing vs. traditional marketing

Core principles of Agile marketing

How Agile marketing works day to day

Agile marketing frameworks

Building an Agile marketing team

Benefits of Agile marketing

How to implement Agile marketing

1. Assess your current workflow

2. Create your first marketing backlog

3. Choose a framework

4. Run the first cycles

5. Review, learn, and improve

6. Scale across teams

Common pitfalls to avoid

How Wrike helps

Themes, Epics, Stories, and Tasks in Agile

The Agile work structure

Top tips for your Agile structure

A Ultimate Guide to Agile Epics

What is an epic in Agile?

Why teams use epics

An example of using an Agile epic

Agile epic 1: Real-time video surveillance

Agile epic 2: Smart detection and alerts

Agile epic 3: User access and keyless entry

When should you use an epic?

Benefits of epic in Agile

Better organization

Improved time management

Clear client priorities

Incremental delivery

Epic best practices

Agile epic vs. user story

Agile epic vs. feature

Agile epic vs. initiative

Using Wrike for your epics

How to Create User Stories

What is a user story?

The history of user stories in Agile

User story examples

5 steps for writing user stories

Step 1: Outline acceptance criteria

Step 2: Decide on user personas

Step 3: Create tasks

Step 4: Map stories

Step 5: Request feedback

What makes a good user story?

Bigger vs. smaller stories

Benefits of user stories

Disadvantages of user stories

Take your user stories to the next level with Wrike

Agile Estimation Techniques

Core Agile estimation techniques

Relative sizing (the Agile standard)

Planning poker

Affinity grouping

T-shirt sizes

Story point assignment

Hourly estimation

Effort estimation

Common Agile estimation pitfalls and anti-patterns

The commitment trap

Converting points to time

Estimation by proxy

Inflation and sandbagging

Misunderstanding the scale

Wrike for Agile estimation

Agile Estimation: Understanding Story Points

Introduction to Agile Story Points

What are story points?

Story point estimation

How to estimate story points

1. Pick a base story

2. Create a matrix

3. Play planning poker

What is planning poker?

Why use story points?

Top tips for story points

Using Gantt Charts in Agile

What is an Agile Gantt chart?

Why do Agile teams use Gantt charts?

How to use an Agile Gantt chart

Benefits of Agile Gantt charts

Agile Gantt charts in Wrike

Glossary

FAQs

Agile Frameworks And Techniques

Agile Teams

Basics Of Agile

Guidelines For Agile Projects

Optimizing Agile Projects

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Agile Guide: FAQ

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Frequently Asked Questions

We’ve amassed a large number of frequently asked questions (FAQs) by new project managers and put them all here in our guide. While some of these terms and concepts may appear in the glossary, the FAQs allow us to dive a little deeper into each idea.

Agile Teams 11 questions

What Is the Difference Between Doing Agile and Being Agile?

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How to Write an Agile Team Charter

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What Does Agile Leadership Mean?

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What Is Agile Burnout?

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What Is an Agile Practitioner?

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What Is an Agile Mindset?